Topic: CrunchBang saves the day again!
For a while I've been periodically working on my Drummer's Brother's laptop. It was a Windows XP "no-name" lap top" with a Celeron processor of some sort and under a gig of ram (not sure how much).
Basically I've been trying to make his laptop healthy again. Removing crap-ware and other program he'll never use as well as a few viruses. Well, the youngest of the brothers talked him into going somewhere online (website shall remain nameless....cough....cough) he shouldn't have and he got a slew of viruses. Somehow it managed to destroy every ability the lappy had to find a network and hop online. As I was trying to get this poor thing to work again he said, "Jason was telling me to have you put your stuff on there." (For the record Jason is the Drummer and he's been using Ubuntu on his desktop for quite some time.)
After that the conversation about what he needed the laptop to do and what programs he needed. All he needed was internet, the ability to use a Cricket Internet USB dongle thingy and basic office stuff. I thought for a second and went a dug my trusty #! 9.04 cd out of my office (sounds fancy, but really it's just an extra room in the house).
I popped the live cd in and gave him a few minutes to play around and see what he thought. He liked how quick the live cd was, which says a lot about the state the lappy was in. I started the install and then got to work making things easier to use by customizing the menu. Wireless worked out of box and the Cricket thing was easy enough to setup and I made a quick launch in the OB menu for the Cricket should the flipflop driver need to be ran from a terminal. He was super happy when he left. The lap top was way way faster then it was. Wireless was working better then it was and boot time was greatly improved.
"CrunchBang saving antiquated hardware one piece at a time" or "CrunchBang saving me from having to reinstall Windows after a hardware disabling viral infection" 
